Denver’s Gates Planetarium just got an upgrade

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The Denver Museum of Nature & Science has re-opened its planetarium with a swanky new projection system.

Gates Planetarium. (Courtesy Denver Museum of Nature & Science)

Gates Planetarium. (Courtesy Denver Museum of Nature & Science)

We’re talking about a full-dome, eight-projector, 20-million-pixel son of a celestial dome.

And if you go right now, you can see a show about black holes. 

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